No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
H. G. WELLSThe path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive ‘policies’ and ‘Plans’ of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word ‘socialism’, but what else can one call it?
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While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not stake their own.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
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